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The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises
The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...
London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Strong Faith hath strong desires that Christ would come to Judgement. It is not well contented there should be a distance betwixt Christ and it. And therefore cries with the Spouse, Cant. 8.14. — Make haste, my Beloved.— Why are the Chariots so long in coming?
2. Strong Faith hath strong desires that Christ would come to Judgement. It is not well contented there should bee a distance betwixt Christ and it. And therefore cryes with the Spouse, Cant. 8.14. — Make haste, my Beloved.— VVhy are the Chariots so long in comming?
Though in another case it be true, that the Prophet saith,— He that believes makes not haste: yet in this case, He that believes most, makes most haste.
Though in another case it bee true, that the Prophet saith,— Hee that beleeves makes not haste: yet in this case, Hee that beleeves most, makes most haste.
Here are but some broken Rings passing betwixt Christ and us, Here is but the contract and espousals made betwixt Christ and the ⟨p. 164⟩soul. But the day of Judgement is the great solemnization of the marriage. As the espoused Bride longs for the marriage day: so the soul that is espoused to Christ, longs for the consummation of this blessed marriage.